Maigret and the Flemish Shop

by Georges Simenon

Book Overview

"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carr A chilling Inspector Maigret mystery set on the Belgian border "She wasn't an ordinary supplicant.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156551187
• ISBN13: 9780156551182
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Maigret is becalmed

The Peeters family is accused of murdering a young woman who had a child by the son of the family, Joseph Peeters. They ask Maigret to help clear them of suspicion. He arrives at the border town of Givet in a totally unofficial capacity. The phlegmatic manners of the Flemish family, and the perfect calm and cleanliness of their home and shop, seem to mesmerize Maigret. Will he penetrate their secrets - and the motives of the townspeople who hate them? Maigret does some unexpected things in this novel, including warding off an attacker, a rare display of physical fitness! Simenon had some Flemish ancestry himself. It's interesting to ponder that in relation to the peculiar atmosphere in the Peeters household.